People should not be able, whoever they are, not just financial institutions, should be able to buy their way out of culpability.

the Justice Department seems bent on money rather than justice, you know, and that is a mistake and the American people pick up on that.

Reserving the right to object, our side is eager to schedule floor consideration of appropriations bills with a full and open amendment process, and the MILCON-VA bill would be at the top of our list. Would the Senator from Maryland agree…

I object to my distinguished chair's motion to consider and pass the MILCON-VA appropriations bill. This is not because I oppose the underlying bill, as I have said. This a bill that has wide bipartisan support. Its support is predicated…

my colleague from North Carolina has just spoken on behalf of the nomination of Robert McDonald to be the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and I will do likewise. He has also spoken of his background as a graduate of West…

Despite trade laws designed to protect against unfair practices, it is my understanding that dumping and subsidization of foreign products through circumventing the system have become increasingly common.

For years, our Nation's export and import sector has witnessed a number of methods used to evade and circumvent current trade laws.

From past experience, we know that detention and rapid removal, following all appropriate due process, is an important deterrent to illegal crossing.

The Obama administration, as well as previous administrations, have failed to secure our borders.

I believe that we must start with actually securing our border, which we have never done; enforcing our Nation's immigration laws, which we don't do; and definitively saying no to people who come here illegally.

we are against human trafficking for adults, children, everything like that.

As we speak, what percentage of children that meet the adjudication process are sent home, and what percentage stay in the United States, currently?